Bags Named After Celebrities : Birkin Bag By Hermès

02Jul

The Birkin Bag by Hermès

The Birkin bag is a classy handbag named after the British singer Jane Birkin by the French high fashion house Hermès. It’s handmaded in different types of leather and reflects wealth & luxuriousity according to its high price, materials and the elusiveness to the public.
The prices range from $9,000 to $150,000 which is around( 33,000 aed to 550,000 aed ), it depends on the type of the materials,colors,hardware fixtures and skins.

The Birkin bag named after Jane Birkin. An English actress and singer who lives in France. In recent years she has written her own album, directed a film and become an outspoken proponent of democracy in Burma.

It all started back in 1981 when the Hermès chief executive Jean-Louis Dumas was seated next to Jane Birkin on a flight from Paris to London. She was carrying a straw bag which had been captured with so many times.She was just about to place her straw bag in the overhead compartment of her seat but before she knew it fell on the floor leaving her her to scramble to replace her contents back in the bag.She explained to Dumas how it’s so difficult to find a traveling weekend leather bag that she really likes. In 1984, Dumas created a black supple leather bag to her ” the Birkin bag” inspired by what she told him and based on an 1892 design.

She said: “I was very flattered! They’ve turned it to the success we know today. So now, when I go to America to sing, they say, ‘Birkin – like the bag?’ I say, ‘Yes, indeed: and the bag will now sing’.”

In Sex and the City season 4, episode 11 “Coulda, Woulda, Shoulda”, Samantha Jones uses her client Lucy Liu’s name to obtain a Birkin Bag without enduring the 5 year wait.

In Sex and the City season 4 (2001-2002) they made a whole episode about the Birkin bag.it costs $ 5000 back then which is around ” 18,000 aed”. They mentioned the 5 years waiting list which is the longest waiting list in the history. In April 2010, Hermès announced that the waiting list would no longer exist, implying that it is potentially available to all.

Hardware : The metallic hardware (the lock, keys, buckle hardware, and base studs) are plated with gold or palladium to prevent tarnishing. The metal lock may be covered with leather as a custom option. Diamonds are another custom addition.

– Visible difference between the Hermes Birkin and Hermes Kelly handbag: The easiest way to identify the difference between the handbags is the handles. The single handle handbag is the Kelly, and the Birkin has two handles.